[U-Boot] How to test new bootloaders on Jetson TX1?

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>]

On 15/02/18 15:12, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> Am 15.02.2018 um 15:01 schrieb Jon Hunter:
>> On 15/02/18 12:32, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Am 15.02.2018 um 10:22 schrieb Jon Hunter:
>>>> On 15/02/18 01:51, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>>>> I would like to test the latest version of U-Boot on the Jetson TX1.
>>> [...]
>>>>> Here's what I have tried:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ sudo ./flash.sh p2371-2180-devkit mmcblk0p1
>>>> This should work. Which u-boot binary are you copying and where are you
>>>> copying it?
>>>>
>>>> I copy the u-boot-dtb.bin over u-boot.bin in the L4T directory
>>>> Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/t186ref/p2771-0000/500/u-boot.bin.
>>>
>>> I downloaded the .rpm from
>>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/hardware:boot/u-boot-p2371-2180
>>> extracting all of u-boot, u-boot.bin, u-boot.dtb and u-boot-dtb.bin to
>>> bootloader/t210ref/p2371-2180/ - and as described it makes a difference
>>> in that it then ceases to boot to a U-Boot prompt.
>>
>> Sorry, looks like I mixed TX1 and TX2. I see you are using TX1. However,
>> I believe you are still booting the wrong u-boot file.
>>
>> If you look at the p2371-2180-devkit.conf you will see that it has ...
>>
>>  DFLT_KERNEL_IMAGE="bootloader/${target_board}/p2371-2180/u-boot.bin
>>
>> For using the upstream u-boot, we need to use the u-boot-dtb.bin and not
>> the u-boot.bin. So you can either ...
>>
>> 1. Update the p2371-2180-devkit.conf to use the u-boot-dtb.bin that you
>> copied.
>> 2. Move the u-boot-dtb.bin from your rpm to
>> bootloader/t210ref/p2371-2180/u-boot.bin.
> 
> Both in the Nvidia tarball and in our upstream based package builds,
> u-boot.bin and u-boot-dtb.bin are identical. Since some time
> u-boot-dtb.bin gets copied over as u-boot.bin for consistency upstream.

Good to know!

> Should this work with the vanilla upstream files, or do they need any
> headers or signatures or something?

Yes should work fine with vanilla upstream.

> Do any of you have that upstream version booting successfully, or might
> it be an upstream U-Boot regression? I was so far assuming it's a user
> error, so haven't tried bisecting yet.

I am using "U-Boot 2017.03". However, I realise that I am currently
based upon L4T rel24.2.1 (as rel28.1 was not available when I started
using L4T for testing upstream). I hope it would not matter, but you
never know. I plan to move to rel28.2 once it is released. If we think
it is a problem with rel28.1 I should be able to test my side.

Cheers
Jon

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